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mutton dash

noun

Etymology

From mutton + dash, to avoid ambiguity when speaking between en dash and em dash.

  1. derived from daske — “to slap, strike”
  2. inherited from daschen
  3. compounded as mutton dash — “mutton + dash”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of em dash.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mutton dash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA